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    Performance Level Description

    Final Summative Grade Value

    Final Grade
    • No expectations listed below are met or demonstrated or no evidence of learning has been submitted.

    Below 1.00

    F
    • Does not meet grade level expectations even with significant support.
    • Learning is basic, limited, and contains many significant gaps or misunderstandings.
    • Opinions or judgments are rarely justified and lack detail.
    • Infrequently demonstrates critical or creative thinking.
    • Rarely applies knowledge and skills without significant support.
    • Unable to transfer basic knowledge to unfamiliar situations.

    1.00-1.49

    F
    • Meets grade level expectations with limited support.
    • Produces work of an acceptable quality.
    • Communicates basic understanding of many concepts and contexts, with occasionally significant misunderstandings or gaps.
    • Begins to demonstrate some basic critical and creative thinking.
    • Is often inflexible in the use of knowledge and skills, requiring support even in familiar classroom situations.

    1.50-1.83

    C-

    1.84-2.16

    C

    2.17-2.49

    C+
    • Consistently and independently meets grade level expectations.
    • Produces generally good-to-high-quality, work.
    • Communicates solid understanding of concepts and contexts.
    • Demonstrates critical and creative thinking, sometimes with sophistication.
    • Uses knowledge and skills in familiar classroom and real-world situations.
    • May use knowledge and skills in some unfamiliar real-world situations, with or without support.

    2.50-2.66

    B-

    2.67-2.83

    B

    2.84-2.99

    B+
    • Exceeds grade level expectations in a creative and innovative manner.
    • Produces high-quality or innovative work.
    • Communicates extensive or nuanced understanding of concepts and contexts.
    • Demonstrates critical and creative thinking, frequently with sophistication.
    • Uses knowledge and skills in familiar and unfamiliar classroom and real-world situations, often with independence.
    • Transfers knowledge and skills with independence and expertise in a variety of complex classroom and real-world situations.

    3.00-3.25

    A-

    3.26-3.74

    A

    3.75-4.00

    A+